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ArticleInvestigative radiology2026

Validation of a Pretrained Artificial Intelligence Model for Pancreatic Cancer Detection on Diagnosis and Prediagnosis Computed Tomography Scans.

Laura Degand, Clément Abi-Nader, Alexandre Bône, Rebeca Vetil, Davide Placido, Piotr Chmura, Marc-Michel Rohé, Federico De Masi, Søren Brunak

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9 authors.

Laura DegandNovo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (L.D., D.P., P.C., S.B.); Guerbet Research, Villepinte, France (C.A.N., A.B., R.V., M.M.R.); Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (F.D.M.).
Clément Abi-Nader
Alexandre Bône
Rebeca Vetil
Davide Placido
Piotr Chmura
Marc-Michel Rohé
Federico De Masi

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Abstract

purposeTo evaluate PANCANAI, a previously developed AI model for pancreatic cancer (PC) detection, on a longitudinal cohort of patients. In particular, aiming for PC detection on scans acquired before histopathologic diagnosis was assessed. MATERIALS AND

methodsThe model has been previously trained to predict PC suspicion on 2134 portal venous CTs. In this study, the algorithm was evaluated on a retrospective cohort of Danish patients with biopsy-confirmed PC and with CT scans acquired between 2006 and 2016. The sensitivity was measured, and bootstrapping was performed to provide median and 95% CI.

resultsThe study included 1083 PC patients (mean age: 69 y ± 11, 575 men). CT scans were divided into 2 groups: (1) concurrent diagnosis (CD): 1022 CT scans acquired within 2 months around histopathologic diagnosis, and (2) prediagnosis (PD): 198 CT scans acquired before histopathologic diagnosis (median 7 months before diagnosis). The sensitivity was 91.8% (938 of 1022; 95% CI: 89.9-93.5) and 68.7% (137 of 198; 95% CI: 62.1-75.3) on the CD and PD groups, respectively. Sensitivity on CT scans acquired 1 year or more before diagnosis was 53.9% (36 of 67; 95% CI: 41.8-65.7). Sensitivity on CT scans acquired at stage I was 82.9% (29 of 35; 95% CI: 68.6-94.3).

conclusionPANCANAI showed high sensitivity for automatic PC detection on a large retrospective cohort of biopsy-confirmed patients. PC suspicion was detected in more than half of the CT scans that were acquired at least a year before histopathologic diagnosis.

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Artificial IntelligencePancreatic NeoplasmsRadiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-AssistedTomography, X-Ray ComputedAgedAged, 80 and overAlgorithmsDenmarkFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesSensitivity and SpecificityCT scandeep learninglesion detectionmain pancreatic ductpancreatic cancer

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PMCPMC12736417

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